THE GRAND CHARITY

Registered charity 281942 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE FREEMASONS GRAND CHARITY

THE FREEMASONS' GRAND CHARITY IS THE CENTRAL GRANT-GIVING CHARITY OF ALL ENGLISH CONSTITUTION FREEMASONS. ITS OBJECTS ARE VERY BROAD AND GIVE DISCRETION TO THE COUNCIL TO DETERMINE CHARITABLE POLICIES. THE TWO PRIMARY ACTIVITIES ARE 1. GRANTS: FOR MASONS OR THEIR DEPENDANTS; OTHER MASONIC CHARITIES & NON-MASONIC CHARITIES. 2. MANAGING THE RELIEF CHEST SCHEME.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

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Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Relief Chest Scheme - The Grand Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Freemasons — “Funded entirely by Freemasons, we build better lives by encouraging opportunity, promoting independence and improving wellbeing.” (source page)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (93% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/09/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Masonic Charitable Foundation · trustee of 7 other charities

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MASONIC SAMARITAN FUND.

• MASONIC SAMARITAN FUND income £1.4m
• THE RMIG ENDOWMENT TRUST income £1.0m
• THE WEST WALES GRAND CHARITY income £198k
• THE ROYAL MASONIC BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION income £2.3m
• OXFORDSHIRE MASONIC CHARITY income £88k
• BRISTOL MASONS' CHARITY income £996k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.